Word: conformance
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...municipal government will lease the brothels to private operators, who must conform to a stringent regulatory code. Each establishment will house no more than 16 prostitutes, all of whom must obtain good-conduct certificates from the police. Prostitutes must be at least 22 years old, customers at least 18. Every prostitute will have a legal right to reject any customer she finds unacceptible. As a final touch of austerity, the code strictly forbids any drinking, dancing or gambling on the premises...
...interchange with Rogers, Chief Justice Earl Warren brought forth a significant admission: the Southerners' request that enforcement be left, without deadlines, to U.S. District Courts really cloaks an intention to resist desegregation. Warren asked: "You are not willing to say that there would be an honest attempt to conform to this decree, if we did leave it to the District Court...
Rogers: "No, because I would have to tell you that right now we would not conform. We would not send our white children to the Negro schools...
Soon after Congress last year passed a new revenue code, the law sprang some big, unexpected leaks. Two of the biggest, originally designed to make tax rules conform to business accounting practices, were...
Interviews indicated that the mass of the people conform to the traditional picture of a Russian, erratic, stubborn, dependent upon group security, and intensely loyal to the Motherland...